Works selected by Diana Eccles and Joanna Gutteridge were added to the exhibition Forty Years of British Sculpture to form this exhibition. The show was first mounted on the occasion of HM The Queen’s State Visit to Russia in 1994 and comprised 37 sculptures, together with works on paper, from the British Council collection and charted the development of British sculpture since 1939. A catalogue was published, in an English and Russian edition, to accompany the exhibition with an introductory essay by Professor Norbert Lynton, and biographical and bibliographical notes on the artists; ISBN 086355 256 0 and ISBN 086355 257 9. The exhibition toured until 1996.

 

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Glossary

  • Edition

    All copies of a book, print, portfolio, sculpture, etc., issued or produced at one time or from a single set of type. Printed works can be made in an edition of between one and many thousands of copies. With most printing techniques the plate or screen will become worn if very many prints are made, so to maintain quality (and exclusivity) editions of original prints are usually kept below one hundred copies and normally average between thirty and fifty copies. Prints made up of several different plates can be extremely complicated and time-consuming to edition, so in these cases editions are kept low for practical reasons. Sculptural editions are a set of cast sculptures taken from the same mould or master. These editions are usually much lower, consisting of no more than six casts. Though each cast in an edition might have a lower value than a unique piece, it may be a more effective way of offsetting costs of an expensive process such as bronze casting.

  • Sculpture

    A three-dimensional work of art. Such works may be carved, modelled, constructed, or cast. Sculptures can also be described as assemblage, in the round, relief, and made in a huge variety of media. Contemporary practice also includes live elements, as in Gilbert & George 'Living Sculpture' as well as broadcast work, radio or sound sculpture.